Autosave in Applications
February 27th, 2004
Interesting thoughts about automatically saving documents.
blog entry about making Cocoa documents autosave: http://iratescotsman.com/index.php/interface/mac/autosave.html
This came about because it seems like Cocoa doesn’t let you revertToSavedDocument after you edit, save, then edit again. I have to Undo an operation before I am once again allowed to revertToSavedDocument. Haven’t figured out if this is a bug yet.
autosave is a huge headache for me. or the lack of autosave, that is.
do you realize that, without it, it’s impossible to “safely” shutdown the computer without human input in many circumstances?
shutting down the system cleanly is just a hard problem in the first place (from the OS’s point of view). well, a complicated problem if not a hard one.